Edith Wharton

Nineteenth Century Naturalism Complete with Consumption

Although Edith Wharton is not generally known for writing about poor New Yorkers, her story The Bunner Sisters, adapted for the stage by Julie Beckman of the Athena Theatre Project, focuses on the lives of two lower-middle class Protestant spinsters, (of the haute Clavinist bent) struggling to stay afloat in New York City in the late 19th Century.